PSY 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Learning Theory, Observational Learning, Behaviour Therapy
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Overt behavior - can be observed, predicted, and eventually controlled by scientists. Classical conditioning - animals could be made to respond to stimuli in their environment by pairing these stimuli with events that already elicited a response. Classical conditioning - learning resulting from a pairing a conditioned stimulus with a new, unconditioned stimulus. Second-order conditioning - process of building one conditioned s-r association on another. For new s-r association to persist, the unconditioned and conditioned stimuli must be paired occasionally or otherwise reinforced. Extinction - gradual disappearance of the conditioned s-r association. Law of effect - behaviors are more likely to be repeated if they lead to satisfying consequences and less likely to be repeated if they lead to unsatisfying consequences. Operant conditioning - learning resulting from the response an organism receives following a behavior. Concerns the effect certain kinds of consequences have on the frequency of behavior. Reinforcement - consequence that increases the frequency of a behavior that precedes.
